The HKUST Library presents

This special exhibition highlights the value that the Library brings to the members of the University. The Library is becoming a unique learning hub, integrating information, technology, and expertise to support learning, teaching and research activities at HKUST.

The range of services provided by the HKUST Library is now much broader than a traditional academic library. In addition to a wide variety of services, Library staff members are also involved in various activities which substantially contribute to students’ whole person development and to the enhancement of their skills set for life-long learning. When the Information Commons was established in 2006 and expanded in 2009, the Library made considerable efforts to ensure the environment provided best supports academic learning and creativity.

The Learning commons being created in the Library, as well as the Library building extension, will offer environments that address rapidly changing learning needs, bringing together innovative technology, information content, and learning support services in a physical space that results in a welcoming learning hub on our campus. This learning hub will become a focal point on our campus where the elements of knowledge, study, collaboration, and discovery usefully come together to enrich the work and learning.

Supporting Your Learning, Teaching and Research

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HKUST Library’s primary mandate is to support your learning, teaching, and research. To this end, Library staff members build and maintain an extensive array of material in multiple formats, covering many different subjects.

This rich array of resources supports the core curriculum, general education, 3-3-4 enrichment, and whole person development, as well as research in all areas, especially HKUST’s strategic high impact areas: Nano-science and Nano-Technology; Biological Sciences and Biotechnology; Electronics, Wireless and Information Technology; Environment and Sustainable Development; and Management Education and Research.

The Library selects, acquires, classifies, catalogs, organizes, manages, and preserves these print, digital and multi-media collections so you can access them easily and use them effectively.

We provide you a wide range of services to help you use resources within HKUST Library, and to obtain information outside it (both locally and globally).

To assist you to become smart information users, we offer you orientation programs, induction tours, library classes, and online self-help guides.

Innovations
 

The HKUST Library continuously innovates to:

• Create or customize useful applications to manage your information resources
• Provide ever more convenient services in support of your learning, teaching, and research at the University

The Library actively collects, preserves, and disseminates the HKUST Community’s scholarly output through:

• Electronic Theses
• Digital University Archives
• Institutional Repository
• HKUST Scholarly Publications Harvesting Project

Whole Person Development

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Develop Your Mind, Character and Full Potential at the Library

Your education is not just about obtaining knowledge and qualifications for employment. The HKUST Library provides resources and learning space for you to develop yourself as a whole person. It helps you feed your imagination, and strengthen your character throughout your life. Here you can learn to be an independent thinker, problem solver, and a decision maker. It helps you become more concerned for the environment, the community around you, and also to appreciate cultural diversity, arts and music.

The Library as Place

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A Place to Learn and Connect

The Library enjoys a central location in the beautiful Clear Water Bay campus. The five-storey building with its spectacular sea view enables you to study, learn, research, and develop your interests in a relaxing yet stimulating environment.The Library carefully plans and provides facilities and spaces for you to use. Enjoy different types of equipment for computing, digital applications, and enhanced information retrieval.